Mad Men 3x03 Reaction
Added 2025-09-19 10:02:26 +0000 UTC
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Lol at the pre-show conversation trying to guess why this episode was "banned". Sorry girls, you aren't going to predict this one. Lots to love in this episode: I'll shout out the incredible whiplash of Pete & Trudy dancing into Kinsey reciting Eliot. That's how you do it, folks. Some extra credit reading on the Kentucky Derby, minstrel shows, racism, and the song that lends this episode its name: "In South Africa they don’t sing songs about apartheid before a cricket game,” Bingham says. “In Germany they don’t sing songs about the Holocaust before a soccer match. How did it come to have this kind of weight in our sport and our state?” https://www.si.com/horse-racing/2022/05/06/once-again-churchill-downs-will-ignore-the-racist-ties-to-my-old-kentucky-home
Mike
2025-09-20 18:10:43 +0000 UTCI denounced the trigger warning and censorship of this episode below as someone who that is supposed to protect. But it wasn't just a guy "stupidly painting his face and singing a song" and *you know it*. Your intentional attempt to minimize blackface is gross, but entirely consistent with the tenor of your previous posts about this show. The funny thing is that if they had posted a trigger warning about the rape, you would be here bitching that too.
Julien
2025-09-20 06:17:30 +0000 UTCReally does say something about us that we remove and decry an episode where a guy stupidly paints his face and sings a song...but it was fine that we watched a woman get raped by her fiance on the floor a few eps ago. Obv there's heavier weight and context to both but I'm just making the point...it's ridiculous smh. Great episode nonetheless.
TylerNorCal
2025-09-20 03:22:05 +0000 UTC
